Panentheism Addressing the Whole of Reality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781503159860)

It is time we as a species examine our true purpose for existing in earnest. Panentheism is an understanding of the whole of reality capable of providing us as individuals and as a species with the means of understanding our role within the whole of reality. Establishing the understanding and simply stating a belief, the belief that our inalienable rights were endowed by the Creator, are two entirely different things. What is different is the approach. For hundreds of years, perhaps thousands of years, isolated pockets of humanity have professed the altruistic belief that individual rights are endowed by our Creator. The idea was always based upon an intuitive sense. The esoteric means by which a few select individual could understand the rationale for such an altruistic belief was little understood by the masses. As a species we have never focused upon building a rational model supporting the idea Society has not recognized the means of establishing the rationale for such rights. Building a simple model of reality, building a cross sectional two-dimensional drawing of the whole of reality begins with the use of four perceptual tools available to our species, namely: observation/science, rational dialectics/philosophy, universal teachings/religion and a universal language/mathematics. We, humans, are visual creatures and as such a drawing, a picture, of reality helps us understand the composition of reality, understand reality itself. As they say: A picture is worth a thousand words. A model of reality gives us a picture demonstrating where we as individuals stand in reality, which in turn leads us to understand our true essence. It is the understanding of our true nature, which then leads us to understand why we exist which in turn leads to the rational understanding regarding the significance of individual and regarding who or what granted us our individual rights. If our rights were endowed to us by other physical beings, be they human or otherwise, then said rights can rationally be ungifted by those that gifted them. If, however, The Creator of the physical universe endowed our individual rights, then only the Creator can rationally remove them. So it is the war between the secularists and the theists rages and the secularists, at this point in time, are winning. We are a species, which is losing its way. We are standing at the crossroads of humanity's journey into the third millennium and the beginning of our becoming space travelers, and we as a species have yet to make a decision as to which road to take. Are we spiritual beings or are we physical beings? This road is becoming less and less traveled by our species. This road says we are spiritual beings located within a physical universe which in turn is located within a non-physical 'location', located within a larger spiritual reality. Down this road, in the far distance lies potential, huge potential for the individual, huge potential for the human species and huge potential for other life forms we may encounter as we journey through space. ... The greatest philosophical minds throughout the East and the West have over the last two thousand years debated the validity of this esoteric knowledge within the arena of metaphysics (the branch of philosophy that deals with first principles and seeks to explain the nature of being or reality and the origin and structure of the universe - Webster New World Dictionary 3rd College Edition). As the debate began to unfold within the eyes of the public, secularists recognized the potential threat of metaphysics to their positions. Secularists sought and found the means, for all intents and purposes, to banish metaphysics to the far fringes of philosophy.

Author: Daniel J. Shepard
ISBN-10: 1503159868
ISBN-13: 9781503159860
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/04/2014
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.72d